Curriculum Vitae

Studies

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  2005 – 2012: PhD in Archives and Library Science (topic: Metadata Interoperability), Department of Archives and Library Science, Ionian University, under the supervision of Dr. Manolis Gergatsoulis (grade excellent)
  
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  2002 – 2003: MSc in Information Science, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College of London
  

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  1998 – 2002: Graduate of Department of Archives and Library Science, Ionian University (grade 8,11 to 10)
  

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  1998: Graduate of Jeanne d' Arc Lyceum – Piraeus (grade excellent)
  

Work experience

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  Technological Educational Institute of Athens / Department of Library Science and Information Systems - Athens
  

Academic Lecturer

Courses: “Management of Archival Material” (Theory & Practice), “Archives and Records Originators: Greek Administrative Institutions and European Union Institutions and Bodies”

“Management of Archival Material”. Categories and types of archival material. Audiovisual and electronic files. Business records and church records. Uses and values ​​of items. Appraisal, arrangement (recording, classification, physical arrangement) description (finding aids) indexing archives. Archival description applications with computer programs. Archival description standards (ISAD(G), ISAAR(CPF), ISDF, ISDIAH), archival metadata standards (EAD, EAC-CPF, EAG), content description rules (DACS), digitization and preservation standards (METS and PREMIS), Records Management Technologies, XML encoding language and its technologies.

“Archives and Records Originators: Greek Administrative Institutions and European Union Institutions and Bodies”. The organizations of the Greek public sector and the documents produced by them will be addressed in scope: principles of legislative, executive and judicial powers of the state: civil service, judiciary, legal entities of public law, local governments, agencies and utilities, banks, registries, notary, land registry. The procedures and bodies of the European Union will be examined in relation to the evidence produced.

Supervision of undergraduate thesis (14).

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  General State Archives – Central Service
  

Archivist-Librarian, Information Scientist, MSc, PhD

General duties: a) checking the retention schedules of public sector’s archival material, its appraisal & disposition (in the area of Piraeus). b) member of the APEnet European Project (main duties: participation in the management team - writing reports for the project, financial management, scientific consulting -, in the WP3 – Interoperability with Europeana, and on other WPs dealing with issues such as the EAD XML exports from databases, data validation and quality control, reporting and keeping the records needed, WP4 - Development of content framework for the gateway and WP6 Project management, Encoded Archival Guide (EAG) Working Group (APEnet Project), uploading content in the APEnet Archives Portal and checking its quality) , writing specifications for the procurement of an XML editor. c) Country Manager (in Greece) for the APEX European Project. d) preparation of the Greek law on E-records & Digitization.

Duties as an employee of the Planning, Coordination and Studies Department: a) being informed on the national and international activities in the archival science field, b) supervision of specific regional services of the GSA and scientific and technical consulting of their personnel, c) reporting and consulting on the social media use in Archives, d) metadata encoding of the bibliographic resources related to archival science in library systems, e) organization of visits and receptions in the GSA, f) managing the organization of the meeting European Board of National Archivists (EBNA) and European Archives Group (EAG) (organized under the Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2014). Number of employees under supervision: 3 (APEnet)

Duties as an employee of the Director’s Office: managing the scientific & international activities of the office.

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  National Documentation Centre / National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)
  

Archivist – Librarian, MSc

Collection of the material to be deposited (my work focused mainly on the material of the following institutions: Institute of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology, Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology). Metadata and cataloguing issues. Exploration of self-archiving policies. Reporting and keeping the records of the project. Development of the digital repository http://helios-eie.ekt.gr/EIE/. Number of employees under direct supervision: 1 (while working in the Institutional Repository Team)

Development and support of ΑΒΕΚΤ (ILS), eXaMpLe, XML2MARC and xIndexer (XML Software), http://argo.ekt.gr bibliographic portal. Technical support. Metadata and cataloguing consulting to cultural heritage institutions' staff (EAD, ISAD G, MODS, EPIDOC, UNIMARC, MARC21, AACR2, ISBDs, MADS). Training staff of libraries and archives. Data and metadata management. Digital objects management and dissemination. Participation in the creation and editing of the Greek Public Libraries newsletter. Data migration. Participation in the project of the Development of Greek Public Libraries.

Participation in the cooperation of the NDC with a) the General State Archives (XML software issues, EAD metadata management and reporting interoperability issues between EAD and UNIMARC metadata schemas), b) Municipal Center for Historical Research and Documentation (DIKI) (XML software issues, EAD and UNIMARC metadata management and reporting the digitization and metadata survey of the project), c) the Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity (metadata issues for describing epigraphs) and d) the Institute of Byzantine Research ΙΒΕ/ΕΙΕ (metadata issues for describing archives).

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  Ionian University
  

Researcher (Archivist – Librarian, MSc)

Research project “DELOS NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES”

Writing of scientific works and reports in the field of Digital Libraries, Metadata Interoperability and Archives-Records Management.

Project “Reformation of the Curriculum of the Department of Archive and Library Studies, Ionian University (ΕΠΕΑΕΚ ΙΙ)”

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  National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government
  

Archivist – Librarian, MSc

Lecturer on the topic “Teaching the library automation program/software ABEKT 5.5”, 147 teaching hours, “School libraries management with the use of computer science and telecommunication technologies”

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  HELLENIC PARLIAMENT – THE LIBRARY
  

Archivist – Librarian (Undergraduate student), Internship.

Publications

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   L. Bountouri. Archives in the digital age: standards, policies and tools. To be published in 2015 by Chandos Publishing/Elsevier.
   

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   M. Gergatsoulis, L. Bountouri, P. Gaitanou, and C. Papatheodorou. On the integration of cultural metadata schemas using CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model. Submitted for review.
   
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   L. Bountouri and G. Giannakopoulos. The use of Social Media in Archives. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 147: 510–517, 2014.
   
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   L. Bountouri and M. Gergatsoulis. The Semantic Mapping of Archival Metadata to the CIDOC CRM Ontology. Journal of Archival Organization, 9(3-4):174-207, 2011.
   

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   L. Bountouri and M. Gergatsoulis. Interoperability between archival and bibliographic metadata: an EAD to MODS crosswalk. Journal of Library Metadata, 9(1-2):98-133, 2009.
   

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   L. Bountouri, C. Papatheodorou, V. Soulikias, and M. Stratis. Metadata Interoperability in Public Sector Information. Journal of Information Science, 35(2):204-231, April 2009.
   

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   P. Gaitanou, L. Bountouri, and M. Gergatsoulis. Automatic Generation of Crosswalks through CIDOC CRM. In J. M. Dodero, M. Palomo-Duarte, P. Karampiperis (eds.), 6th Research Conference, MTSR 2012, Cádiz, Spain, November 28-30, 2012. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science, pages. 264-275, Springer 2012.
   

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   L. Bountouri and M. Gergatsoulis. Mapping Encoded Archival Description to CIDOC CRM. In 1st Workshop on Digital Information Management, Corfu, Greece, March 30-31, pages 8-25, 2011.
   

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   L. Bountouri, C. Papatheodorou, and M. Gergatsoulis. Modelling the Public Sector Information through CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model. In R. Meersman, T. Dillon, and P. Herrero, editors, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2010 Workshops, volume 6428 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 404-413. Springer, 2010.
   

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   M. Gergatsoulis, L. Bountouri, P. Gaitanou, and C. Papatheodorou. Query Transformation in a CIDOC CRM Based Cultural Metadata Integration Environment. In Mounia Lalmas, Joemon M. Jose, Andreas Rauber, Fabrizio Sebastiani, and Ingo Frommholz, editors, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010, Glasgow, UK, September 6-10, 2010. Proceedings, volume 6273 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 38-45. Springer, 2010.
   

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   M. Gergatsoulis, L. Bountouri, P. Gaitanou, and C. Papatheodorou. Mapping Cultural Metadata Schemas to CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model. In Stasinos Konstantopoulos, Stavros Perantonis, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Constantine D. Spyropoulos, and George Vouros, editors, Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Models and Applications, volume 6040 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 321-326. Springer, 2010.
   

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   L. Bountouri, M. Gergatsoulis, and C. Papatheodorou. Integrating Cultural Heritage Information Sources. ERCIM - DIS (Data and Information Spaces) Workshop, 27 May, Paris, France, 2009, 2009.
   

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   L. Bountouri and M. Gergatsoulis. Interoperability between archival and bibliographic metadata. In L. Aroyo, E. Hyvonen, and J. van Ossenbruggen, editors, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web (in conjunction with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference), Busan, Korea, pages 107-108, November 2007. (Poster)
   
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   T. Stasinopoulou, L. Bountouri, C. Kakali, I. Lourdi, C. Papatheodorou, M. Doerr, and M. Gergatsoulis. Ontology-Based Metadata Integration in the Cultural Heritage Domain. In Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Tru Hoang Cao, Ingeborg Torvik Solvberg, and Edie Rasmussen, editors, Asian Digital Libraries. Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2007, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 10-13, 2007. Proceedings, volume 4822 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 165-175. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2007.
   

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   C. Kakali, I. Lourdi, T. Stasinopoulou, L. Bountouri, C. Papatheodorou, M. Doerr, and M. Gergatsoulis. Integrating Dublin Core metadata for cultural heritage collections using ontologies. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC 2007), Singapore, 27 - 31 August, pages 128-139, 2007.
   

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    L. Bountouri and M. Gergatsoulis. Ontology – based Semantic Integration. In Proceedings of the 15th Pan-Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference, Patra, Greece, 1-3 November 2006.
    

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    S. Christodoulakis, P. Arapi, N. Moumoutzis, M. Patel, S. Kapidakis, A. Arahova, and L. Bountouri. Interoperability of eLearning Applications with Audiovisual Digital Libraries. Poster on the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005), Vienna, Austria, 18-23 September 2005, 2005.
    
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    L. Bountouri. Text Encoding Initiative: review, problems and real world implementations. In Proceedings of the 13th Pan-Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference, Corfu, Greece, 13-15 October 2004, 2004.
    
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    L. Bountouri, Nikolas Tsokas, and M. Sfakakis. eXaMpLe: Exploiting XML technology in information management. In Proceedings of the 13th Pan-Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference, Corfu, Greece, 13-15 October 2004, 2004.
    

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   L. Bountouri. Interoperability between Metadata Schemas. PhD thesis, Department of Archives and Library Science, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, 2012. (in Greek).
   

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   Go Sugimoto and Wim van Dongen (and collaborators). “Interoperability Specifications Report Deliverable D.3.1”, 15^th May 2010.
   
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   “Interoperability survey between EAD and UNIMARC metadata standards”, NDC, 2007. (Work completed as part of the contract between NDC and General State Archives).
   
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   Lina Bountouri and Manolis Gergatsoulis, “A Survey on Ontology - based Semantic Integration”, Technical Report, Ionian University, 2006. (Work completed as part of my participation in the “PYTHAGORAS II - Support of Research Teams in the Universities” project).
   
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   “A Survey on management, description and dissemination of content of the Municipal Center for Historical Research and Documentation of Volos (DIKI) NDC, 2006. (Work completed as part of the contract between NDC and DIKI).
   
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   Stavros Christodoulakis, Chrisa Tsinaraki, Polyxeni Arapi, Nektarios Moumoutzis, Irene Lourdi, Lina Bountouri, Christos Papatheodorou, Manolis Gergatsoulis, Sarantos Kapidakis, “WP2, Task 2.2.2: State of the Art in Semantic Interoperability in Digital Libraries”. February 2005.
   

Teaching

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  Academic lecturer for the course “Management of Archival Material”. [Technological Institute of Education - Athens, Department of Library Science and Information Systems, October 2010- ].
  
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  Academic lecturer for the course “Archives and Records Originators: Greek Administrative Institutions and European Union Institutions and Bodies”. [Technological Institute of Education - Athens, Department of Library Science and Information Systems, January 2013- ].
  

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  Lecture on “Interoperability between archival and bibliographic metadata: an EAD to MODS crosswalk”. In the line of the MSc in Information Science – Management and Organization of Libraries. Ionian University, Department of Archives and Library Science, Corfu, Greece, December 2009.
  
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  Lecture on “Metadata Interoperability”. In the line of the MSc in Information Science – Management and Organization of Libraries, Athens, February 2008.
  
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  “Electronic Records Management”. Christos Papatheodorou and Lina Bountouri. Greek Librarians and Information Scientists Union, Athens, 11 June 2007.
  
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  “Seminar on Tools for the creation and management of Metadata”. Ionian University, Department of Archives and Library Science, Corfu, Greece, 23-24 May 2006.
  
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  Lecture on “Encoded Archival Description”. In the line of the MSc in Information Science – Management and Organization of Libraries. [Athens, April 2005, March 2006 and March 2007. Corfu, December 2009].
  
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  Seminar for the General State Archives’ staff on the “EAD MANAGER 2.0 and introductory knowledge for XML and its relative technologies” (i.e. XSLT, XPath) [General State Archives and NDC, 2006-2007].
  
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  Seminar for the Municipal Center for Historιcal Research and Documentation of Volos’ staff on the “Encoded Archival Description and introductory knowledge for XML and its relative technologies” [DIKI and NDC, 2004].
  
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  Lecturer on the topic “Teaching the library automation program/software ABEKT 5.5”, as part of the seminar on “School libraries management with the use of computer science and telecommunication technologies” [National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government, June 2006 – February 2007, 147 teaching hours]
  
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  Seminar for the use of “ABEKT 5.5 - Library Automation Software System” (Search and Retrieval and Library Functions modules), as part of the contract between the Greek Public Libraries and NDC [2004-2007]
  

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  Novento Information System. Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union. 17^th December, 2013.
  
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  Publishing electronic documents using digital signatures. Certified seminar. National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government, 31^st October – 1^st November, 2013.
  
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  Innovative Workshop for the adoption of Presidential Decree on the subject "Electronic Publishing, Dissemination and Arrangement of Documents". National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government, March 28-29, 2013.
  
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  1^st meeting of for the definition of the Encoded Archival Context for Functions, Royal Library of Belgium, 22^nd November, 2014.
  
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  APARSEN Workshop: Long term digital preservation and APARSEN Network of Excellence, 21st Pan-Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference, University of Piraeus, Thursday 18 October 2012.
  
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  Introductory Training under the project "Implementation of the INTRODUCTORY EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION EXECUTIVES, Act "HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 2011-2015" as part of the "Administrative Reform 2007-2013." National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government, December 05-09, 2011.
  

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  22^th joined meeting of the CIDOC CRM SIG - ISO/TC46/SC4/WG9 and 16^th FRBR - CIDOC CRM Harmonization meeting. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany, December 20-22, 2010.
  
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  OnTheMove Federated Conferences & Workshops. Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, October 24-29, 2010.
  
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  Symposium “Εuropeana in Greece – Adding greek cultural content in the European Digital Library”. National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece, 19^th October, 2010.
  
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  “Archives: after digitization, what?”, Society of the Greek Archivists. Plaka, Athens, Greece, 30^th September 2010.
  
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  EDM (Europeana Data Model) – Archives Meeting “Mapping Archival Data to the EDM”. HU Berlin /B-SLIS, Berlin, Germany, 26^th April 2010.
  
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  WP3 APEnet kick-off meeting. Nationaal Archief, The Hague, The Netherlands, 28^th January, 2010.
  
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  6th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2010), Athens, Greece on May 4-7, 2010.
  

• 20^th CIDOC CRM SIG and ISO/TC46/SC4/WG9 joined meeting and 14th FRBR - CIDOC CRM Harmonization meeting. Imperial University, London, United Kingdom, May 20-22, 2009.

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  “International Conference Open Access Infrastructures: The Future of Scientific Communication”. National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece, December 15-16, 2008.
  

• 18^th CIDOC CRM SIG and ISO/TC46/SC4/WG9 joined meeting. Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, 18^th September, 2008.

• 17^th CIDOC CRM SIG and ISO/TC46/SC4/WG9 joined meeting and 12th FRBR - CIDOC CRM Harmonization meeting. FORTH, Heraklion, Greece, May 12-15, 2008.

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  Creative Commons v.3.0 licenses and Academic Libraries (Workshop). Law School Library of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 15^th April, 2008.
  
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  6^th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference. Busan, Korea, November 12-15, 2007.
  
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  1^st International Workshop on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web. Busan, Korea, 12^th November, 2007.
  

• 15^th CIDOC CRM SIG and ISO/TC46/SC4/WG9 joined meeting and 10th FRBR - CIDOC CRM Harmonization meeting. National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 9-12, 2007.

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  15^th Pan-Hellenic Conference of Academic Libraries. University of Patras, Patra, Greece, November 1-3, 2006.
  
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  Archives, Libraries and Law in the Information Society. National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece, February 2-3, 2006.
  
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  14^th Pan-Hellenic Conference of Academic Libraries, T.E.I. Athens, Athens, December 3-5, 2005.
  
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  13^th Pan-Hellenic Conference of Academic Libraries. Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, October 13-15, 2004.
  
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  Meeting “Developing Digital Libraries”. Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, 21^st June, 2002.
  
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  9^th Pan-Hellenic Conference of Academic Libraries. National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, December 18-20, 2000.
  

Scientific memberships and participation in research projects

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  Critical reader for the e-book “Introduction to Archival Science”.
  
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  Co-chair of the Special Track on Metadata & Semantics for Cultural Collections & Applications (part of the 8th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference, 27 - 29 November 2014, Karlsruhe, Germany)
  
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  Co-chair of the 2^nd Workshop on Archives in The Digital Age: Standards, Policies and Tools (part of the 4th International Conference on Integrated Information 2014)
  
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  Member of the Organizing Committee of the 4th International Conference on Integrated Information 2014
  
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  Member of the Encoded Archival Context for Functions (EAC-F) Working Group (November 2013 – )
  
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  Co-chair of the 1^st Workshop on Archives in The Digital Age: Standards, Policies and Tools (part of the 3rd International Conference on Integrated Information 2013)
  
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  Program Committee Member: MTSR 2013-7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (Track on Metadata and Semantics for Cultural Collections and Applications)
  
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  Scientific reviewer: a) Journal of Archival Organization, b) International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO), c) International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2013 (TPDL2013), d) International Conference on Integrated Information 2013 (IC-ININFO 2013)
  
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  Member of the Society of American Archivists Technical Subcommittee on EAC-CPF (January 2011 - )
  
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    Coordinator of the Greek EAC-CPF Tag Library Translation (cooperation between the DBIS & the AALG)
    
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    Member of the Translation and Examples Editing teams
    
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  Member of the CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group
  
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  Country Manager in the GSA for the APEx European Project (2013 - 2014)
  
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  Member of the Encoded Archival Guide (EAG) Working Group (APEnet Project) (March 2011 – January 2012)
  
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  Member of the GSA Working Group for the APEnet European Project (2011-2012)
  
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  Member of the Encoded Archival Context (EAC) Working Group (November 2008 – January 2010)
  
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  Member of the Organizing Committee of the European Conference on Digital Libraries 2009 (ECDL2009)
  
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  Participation in the Knowledge Extraction & Semantic Interoperability (KESI) (WP5) - DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries
  
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  Participation in the Research project “PYTHAGORAS II - Support of Research Teams in the Universities”, Title of the Research: Integration and Interoperability of Information Sources in the Web
  

Other Qualifications

IT Skills

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  ABEKT 5.5 - Library Automation Software System
  
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  Ms FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver
  
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  MS Office and Open Office
  
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  XML editors (Oxygen, XML Spy, eXaMpLe, editiX)
  
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  Digital Repositories: DSPACE
  
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  Arxeiomnimvn: archival description management system
  
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  ICA-ATOM
  
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  Latex
  
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  PBworks
  
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  MS Visio
  
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  HTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, XPATH, XQUERY, SQL, RQL, JAVASCRIPT
  
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  LimeSurvey, SurveyMonkey
  
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  Novento (P&T Consulting)
  
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  Photoshop
  
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  Corel Draw
  

Language skills

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  English (excellent) (Cambridge First Certificate in English, IELTS 2002)
  
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  French (excellent) (Sorbonne I and Diplôme Approfondi de Langue Française)
  
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  Italian (basic)
  
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  Turkish (basic)